The Hangover Part II (2011)

The Hangover Part II Synopsis

In the follow-up to the record-breaking hit comedy The Hangover, Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stuís wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things donít always go as planned. What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in Bangkok canít even be imagined.

Ken Jeongís uproarious performance as Mr. Chow in The Hangover was off-the-walls, batshit crazy, and also one of the most life changing roles of his career. But the reason he accepted the part is particularly moving.

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American Sniper is Bradley Cooperís third straight Best Actor nomination, following nods for his two films with director David O. Russell. But where does it rank on a list of the all-time great Bradley Cooper roles?

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Remember when The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift couldnít even muster $25 million at the domestic box office during its opening weekend seven years ago? Let the record show the franchiseís successes in the years since have not been flukes. The latest installment in the series not only looks poised to win the box office crown this weekend, it looks poised to leave tire tracks all over the competing films.

Fans had a lot of problems with The Hangover Part II, but nothing seemed to bother people more than how similar the plot was to the original. It was the exact same outline, only forty percent as funny and lacking in freshness. Luckily, it seems Todd Phillips and company were listening to all the Internet bitching

While most of us have never accidentally kidnapped a naked Asian gangster or received an unwanted Mike Tyson-inspired facial tattoo, everybody can relate to the idea of a crazy weekend with friends. There's one fellow, however, who insists that The Hangover Part II hits just a little too close to home...close enough that he's filed a lawsuit

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I vividly remember, during my own youth, my mother and father talking at the kitchen table and discarding wannabe babysitters for such reasons as lack of intelligence, possible drinking problem, ugliness and poor hygiene, but all that effort still didnít stop one hired hand from encouraging me to jump as far as I could off the back of the couch. She thought it was funny. I still do

The one interesting and/or surprising thing here is that Mazin's Hangover Part III co-writer Scot Armstrong is not mentioned as signing on already. Also there are no contracts yet signed requiring director Todd Phillips or any of the stars to return for a third film, or specifying their salaries

Hereís two new clips from The Hangover Part 2 which seem to confirm that this is exactly the movie weíre getting. Itís the same film. The first one has them waking up and discovering all the things that went wrong the night before, as they did in the first one.

The idea of "obviously" envisioning a comedy as part of a trilogy is a little bizarre, since there are very, very few examples of successful comedy trilogies and there's nothing in the original Hangover that looks like they're really setting things up for a sequel

Warner Bros. has released a series of six new character posters for The Hangover II. Even the monkey gets one. Actually of course the monkey gets one, because odds are heíll have a lot more screen time in this movie than Justin Bartha. What roof are you going to hang out on this time Doug?

Hereís whatís up according to the trailer: This time Stu is the one getting married and the boys go partying, only to wake up in a disgusting hotel room with no memory of what happened the night before. Theyíve lost someone (someone different this time) and they set out to find him. Thatís also the plot of the first movie, except this time it takes place in Bangkok and thereís a monkey.

While promoting the film Limitless, Bradley Cooper brought up an interesting topic; the character an actor plays winds up reflecting upon that actor. Basically, that meant that at a time, Cooper was seen as the nice guy from Alias then the jerk from Wedding Crashers and then the good looking smart alec from The Hangover. Well, now heís gearing up to turn that image upside down yet again with his latest film, Limitless.

When you really think about it, "unrated" DVDs are bullshit. All they do is give studios an excuse to release a new edition of a movie you already bought and squeeze more money out of you (this is commonly referred to as double dipping). In reality, however, all they are really doing is inserting deleted scenes back into the final cut and calling them "unrated," which they can do because technically the cut was never approved by the MPAA

There's already a Hangover 2 in the works and set to start filming this fall, but the movie's writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore aren't letting go of their "morning after" premise until they've milked as much money out of it as they can

the nominations also include Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner up for Best Kiss for Valentine's Day, Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum 2, for Best Comedic Performance, and Zac Efron as Best Male Performance

Who would have ever thought a raunchy comedy about three guys running amok in Vegas would have turned into a cash machine? Warner Brothers certainly didnít the first time around, and neither did the actors.

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What's especially cool about this record, and what's got geek bloggers like me actually excited about a studio making a ton of money, is that Warner Bros. has somewhat established itself as the studio that will let directors make the movie they want to make

While I have no idea how Frank, Mitch and Beanie would have treated Thailand (or even end up there), the situation would be ripe for Phil, Stu and Alan. Should the report turn out to be true, you can be sure that caning, ladyboys and underage prostitutes won't be out of their grasp

Todd Phillips, the director of last summer's obscenely successful Hangover is just such a teat and according to Entertainment Weekly Warner Brothers has been milking away, setting him hard at work creating a script for a sequel (despite the fact that he didn't write the script for the original).

Hopefully you didn't come out of The Hangover wondering how you and your buddies could recreate the exact same experience on your next trip to Vegas-- odds are really, really not in favor of things turning out as well as they did

The Broken Lizard guys, the comedy troupe behind the movies Super Troopers, Beerfest and the upcoming The Slammin' Salmon, have never exactly been on the cutting edge of comedy, but they've never resorted to straight-up knockoffs before either

It's too soon to tell if any of the great lines from this summer's movies will become legendary, but below are my picks for the 10 best. There's a whole lot to choose from-- The Hangover and In the Loop could each be a list of their own

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There's a Hangover 2 in the works, that much we know. And there's bound to be countless more dude-driven comedies, just like Old School inspired its own set of imitators. But none of that knowledge prepared me for the existence of Last Vegas

A lot of savvy Hollywood industry watchers expected going into this summer that The Hangover would be a much bigger hit than its $35 million budget would suggest. I'm going to immodestly say I was one of them. But no one, not even Todd Phillips, not even Warner Bros., could predict this

If he wasn't already, Todd Phillips is now a very, very rich man. In a piece talking about his upcoming projects, Variety lays out the risky deal Phillips took when he went into making The Hangover-- and how it paid off for him big time

The next time we'll see Zach Galifianakis onscreen, it will somehow be in G-Force, the Jerry Bruckheimer live-action-CGI hybrid about guinea pig special operatives. But when it comes to roles that reflect Galifianakis' post-Hangover fame, we might be waiting a while

Been wondering how they got Ed Helmís missing tooth to look so real in The Hangover? Easy. They yanked it out. Ed Helms is so method. The tooth was an implant heís had in his mouth for more than 20 years

Thereís a time for the wife and a time for the whore, and for a raunch comedy to work, a really skuzzy, emotionally depraved, felony-ridden raunch comedy, the men need to be separated from women they care about so they can embrace their most juvenile, disgusting proclivities

It was a close contest between the old man with the balloons and the three guys suffering an awful morning after, but in the end, The Hangover actually managed to best Up for the number-one spot at the box office this weekend